Introducing Cochrane Person-Centred Care, Health Systems and Public Health

 Characterised by close collaboration and cross-disciplinary expertise, Cochrane ’s newPerson-Centred Care, Health Systems and Public Health Thematic Group is led by Rebecca Ryan (CCC, La Trobe University Australia), Luke Wolfenden (CPH, University of Newcastle, Australia), Simon Lewin (EPOC, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Sasha Shepperd (EPOC, University of Oxford), the new Group has its sights set on bringing quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods expertise to evidence applied across diverse clinical areas, populations and contexts. ‘We know the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight the interconnectedness between health and public health systems and personal, social and environmental contexts, ’ Rebecca Ryan explains. ‘But to date Cochrane hasn’t been well placed to engage with this cross-cutting agenda. Establishing this Thematic Group offers a really timely and promising opportunity to begin doing so. We are really looking forward to working together on this.’‘With our longstanding shared interests in methods, topics and complex reviews, we have enjoyed the benefits of close collaboration for many years. We now want to enable Cochrane to take forward evidence syntheses that span these complex areas and contribute to the delivery of the SDGs and improve ment of global health outcomes.’‘Working more closely as a coordinated Thematic Group will enable cross-cutting priority topics to be identified, along with overlapp...
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